Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 20 20
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -12
Contract jobs citing Azure 102 20 37
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 11.66% 7.46% 8.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.36% 25.00% 34.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 17 32
10th Percentile £372 £475 £185
25th Percentile £450 £481 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% +4.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £569 £556 £605
90th Percentile £688 £650 £687
Yorkshire median daily rate £479 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +0.74% -5.00% -9.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 387 80 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 44.23% 29.85% 23.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 60 85
10th Percentile £332 £396 £250
25th Percentile £413 £470 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.24% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £541 £600 £595
90th Percentile £624 £650 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.05% -2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.50
Median hourly rate - - £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.00%
75th Percentile - - £14.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £32.81 £15.00
% change year-on-year +72.20% +118.73% -53.85%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield -2 99 £510 -1.92% 28
Doncaster - 2 £525 - 7
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (5.88%) Confluence
2 5 (4.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.98%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.98%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.98%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 69 (67.65%) AWS
2 63 (61.76%) GCP
3 21 (20.59%) Entra ID
4 14 (13.73%) OpenShift
5 10 (9.80%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (7.84%) GitHub
6 8 (7.84%) Power Platform
7 7 (6.86%) SaaS
8 5 (4.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (4.90%) OneDrive
9 4 (3.92%) Azure AKS
9 4 (3.92%) ChatGPT
10 3 (2.94%) Akamai
10 3 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.94%) Cloudflare
10 3 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (2.94%) Serverless
11 2 (1.96%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.76%) Firewall
2 8 (7.84%) DNS
3 6 (5.88%) TCP/IP
4 5 (4.90%) VPN
5 4 (3.92%) HTTP
5 4 (3.92%) Kerberos
6 3 (2.94%) HTTPS
7 2 (1.96%) Network Security
7 2 (1.96%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.96%) SSL
7 2 (1.96%) VSAN
8 1 (0.98%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.98%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.98%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.98%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.98%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (0.98%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.98%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.98%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.84%) Power BI
3 6 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.90%) MySQL
5 4 (3.92%) Metadata
5 4 (3.92%) Neo4j
6 3 (2.94%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.94%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.96%) DataStage
7 2 (1.96%) DB2
8 1 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.98%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.98%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.98%) Redis
8 1 (0.98%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (27.45%) Jenkins
2 24 (23.53%) GitLab
2 24 (23.53%) JIRA
3 14 (13.73%) Selenium
4 12 (11.76%) Cucumber
4 12 (11.76%) REST Assured
5 11 (10.78%) Postman
6 7 (6.86%) Git
7 5 (4.90%) TestRail
8 4 (3.92%) Gatling
8 4 (3.92%) JMeter
8 4 (3.92%) LoadRunner
8 4 (3.92%) NeoLoad
9 3 (2.94%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.96%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.96%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.98%) JUnit
11 1 (0.98%) Maven
11 1 (0.98%) WebDriver
General
1 49 (48.04%) Social Skills
2 25 (24.51%) Finance
3 19 (18.63%) Banking
4 7 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.90%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.92%) Law
7 4 (3.92%) Legal
8 3 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.96%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.98%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.98%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (16.67%) Architect
2 16 (15.69%) Lead
3 9 (8.82%) Test Automation Engineer
3 9 (8.82%) Test Engineer
4 8 (7.84%) Developer
5 6 (5.88%) Automation Test Lead
5 6 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (5.88%) Senior
6 5 (4.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 5 (4.90%) Consultant
6 5 (4.90%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (4.90%) Test Architect
6 5 (4.90%) Test Automation Architect
7 4 (3.92%) Analyst
7 4 (3.92%) Lead Architect
7 4 (3.92%) Product Owner
7 4 (3.92%) Project Manager
7 4 (3.92%) Test Leader
8 3 (2.94%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (2.94%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (25.49%) REST
2 23 (22.55%) LDAP
3 22 (21.57%) OpenID
4 17 (16.67%) SailPoint
5 8 (7.84%) OAuth
6 7 (6.86%) .NET
6 7 (6.86%) Middleware
6 7 (6.86%) SAML
7 5 (4.90%) Kafka
8 4 (3.92%) Hugging Face
8 4 (3.92%) JSON
8 4 (3.92%) OpenCV
8 4 (3.92%) Playwright
8 4 (3.92%) PyTorch
8 4 (3.92%) Regular Expression
8 4 (3.92%) SpaCy
8 4 (3.92%) Spring Boot
8 4 (3.92%) TensorFlow
8 4 (3.92%) XML
9 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.73%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (8.82%) Onboarding
4 7 (6.86%) Product Ownership
5 6 (5.88%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.92%) IoT
7 3 (2.94%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.94%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.96%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.96%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.98%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.98%) FMCG
9 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.98%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.98%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.98%) RSA SecurID
9 1 (0.98%) Tandem
9 1 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.80%) Linux
2 7 (6.86%) Windows
3 4 (3.92%) Unix
4 2 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.96%) VMS
5 1 (0.98%) CentOS
5 1 (0.98%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.98%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (50.98%) DevOps
2 45 (44.12%) CI/CD
3 29 (28.43%) Agile
4 24 (23.53%) Containerisation
5 22 (21.57%) Test Automation
6 18 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 17 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
7 17 (16.67%) Roadmaps
7 17 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (15.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (15.69%) Migration
8 16 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (14.71%) API Testing
9 15 (14.71%) Data Ingestion
10 14 (13.73%) Cybersecurity
10 14 (13.73%) ETL
10 14 (13.73%) Test Strategy
11 13 (12.75%) Root Cause Analysis
12 12 (11.76%) GitOps
13 11 (10.78%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 32 (31.37%) Python
2 28 (27.45%) Java
2 28 (27.45%) SQL
3 12 (11.76%) PowerShell
4 10 (9.80%) Bash
5 6 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.90%) PHP
7 4 (3.92%) Cypher
7 4 (3.92%) Go
7 4 (3.92%) Groovy
7 4 (3.92%) Scala
7 4 (3.92%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.96%) Bicep
8 2 (1.96%) C#
8 2 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (4.90%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.92%) Degree
3 3 (2.94%) CEH
3 3 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.94%) GIAC
3 3 (2.94%) GWAPT
3 3 (2.94%) SAP Certification
4 2 (1.96%) CISM
4 2 (1.96%) CISSP
5 1 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.98%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.98%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.98%) CCA
5 1 (0.98%) CCSK
5 1 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.98%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (0.98%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.82%) QA
2 4 (3.92%) GDPR
2 4 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.92%) SLA
3 3 (2.94%) HIPAA
3 3 (2.94%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.98%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.98%) GRC
5 1 (0.98%) NIST
5 1 (0.98%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (13.73%) Docker
2 11 (10.78%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.90%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 5 (4.90%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.96%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.96%) vSphere
6 1 (0.98%) Ceph
6 1 (0.98%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.98%) KVM
6 1 (0.98%) NFS
6 1 (0.98%) QEMU
6 1 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.98%) XenApp
6 1 (0.98%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 31 (30.39%) Kubernetes
2 21 (20.59%) Terraform
3 18 (17.65%) Ansible
4 8 (7.84%) Grafana
5 4 (3.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (3.92%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.96%) Argo
6 2 (1.96%) CSIRT
6 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.98%) Kibana
7 1 (0.98%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.98%) logstash
7 1 (0.98%) Podman
7 1 (0.98%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.98%) Puppet
7 1 (0.98%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (19.61%) Microsoft
1 20 (19.61%) ServiceNow
2 17 (16.67%) Google
3 11 (10.78%) F5
4 9 (8.82%) Oracle
5 6 (5.88%) OpenAI
5 6 (5.88%) Splunk
6 4 (3.92%) SAP
6 4 (3.92%) VMware
7 3 (2.94%) Alibaba
7 3 (2.94%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.94%) Imperva
7 3 (2.94%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.96%) Cisco
8 2 (1.96%) Delphix
8 2 (1.96%) Informatica
8 2 (1.96%) NetApp
8 2 (1.96%) Okta
8 2 (1.96%) Ping Identity
8 2 (1.96%) Red Hat